Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments

Excluding skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring in women and certainly the most feared. In Breast Cancer: A Guide to Detection and Multidisciplinary Therapy, Michael H. Torosian, MD, and a panel of physicians and clinical researchers critically synthesize the wide variety of treatment options available to create a state-of-the-art reference for the management of breast cancer patients. Writing from a multidisciplinary perspective, these authoritative contributors review in the light of the most recent findings the major clinical aspects of breast cancer, including epidemiology and risk factors, breast imaging, biopsy techniques, breast-conserving surgery and reconstruction, mastectomy, and the latest developments in radiation, hormonal, and chemotherapy. Their expert discussion also addresses special clinical situations (adjuvant chemotherapy, axillary adenopathy as initial presentation, breast cancer during pregnancy, and sarcoma and lymphoma of the breast) and explains current clinical controversies (breast-conserving surgery without radiation therapy, axillary lymph node management, and management of internal mammary lymph nodes). Also spelled out are the potential implications of stem cell transplantation, immunotherapy, and gene therapy for the management of breast cancer patients in the future. Multidisciplinary and clinically invaluable, Breast Cancer: A Guide to Detection and Multidisciplinary Therapy offers physicians and health care personnel an understandable state-of-the-art guide to the best care of breast cancer patients available today.

Review

"The great strength of the book is its multidisciplinary format. In virtually all aspects of cancer treatment, optimal cancer management is becoming a coordinated effort among multiple experts. Breast Cancer...seeks to gather experts from a wide array of oncology disciplines to provide the reader with a broad and balanced perspective on the optimal management of breast cancer." - Robert C. Young, MD, President, American Cancer Society "We have here a well-illustrated, concisely prepared "state of the art" text, with which most questions about mammary cancer can be competently answered. A book for everyone who takes care of women (and men) with breast cancer" - Swiss Surg "The presented book is really an up-to-date source of the modern achievements for various fields of breast cancer managements. The excellently prepared book can be fully recommended to a wide scale of specialists, as medical oncologists, radiologists, surgeons, internal medicine specialists and even for primary care physicians." -Neoplasma

Synopsis

Michael H. Torosian, MD, and a panel of physicians and clinical researchers critically synthesize the wide variety of treatment options available to create a state-of-the-art reference for the management of breast cancer patients. Writing from a multidisciplinary perspective, these authoritative contributors review in the light of the most recent findings the major clinical aspects of breast cancer, including, epidemiology and risk factors, breast imaging, biopsy techniques, breast-conserving surgery and reconstruction, mastectomy, and the latest developments in radiation, hormonal, and chemotherapy. Their expert discussion also addresses special clinical situations (adjuvant chemotherapy, axillary adenopathy as initial presentation, breast cancer during pregnancy, and sarcoma and lymphoma of the breast) and explains current clinical controversies (breast-conserving surgery without radiation therapy, axillary lymph node management, and management of internal mammary lymph nodes).

Table of Contents

Part I. Clinical Management

Epidemiology and Clinical Risk Factors

Mary B. Daly

Breast Imaging

Julia A. Birnbaum and Emily F. Conant

Breast Biopsy Techniques

Lisa A. Newman and Frederick C. Ames

Clinical Classification of Breast Cancer

Michael H. Torosian

Breast-Conserving Surgery: Lumpectomy With or Without Axillary Dissection

Samuel W. Beenken and Kirby I. Bland

Mastectomy

David R. Brenin and David W. Kinne

Breast Reconstruction

Louis P. Bucky and Gary A. Tuma

Radiation Therapy

Barbara Fowble and Gary Freedman

Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer

Michael P. Russin and Lori J. Goldstein

Hormonal Therapy of Breast Cancer

Halle C. F. Moore and Kevin R. Fox

The Role of Surgery for Metastatic Breast Cancer

Lori Jardines

Male Breast Cancer

Mahmoud El-Tamer and Lucy J. Kim

Oncogenes in the Development of Breast Cancer

Xiao Tan Qiao, Kenneth L. van Golen, and Sofia D. Merajver

Part II. Special Clinical Situations

Primary Chemotherapy

Deborah L. Toppmeyer

Axillary Adenopathy as the Initial Presentation of Breast Cancer

Shirley Scott and Monica Morrow

Breast Cancer During Pregnancy

Mary L. Gemignani and Jeanne A. Petrek

Local-Regional Recurrence in Breast Cancer

Thomas J. Kearney and David A. August

Nipple Discharge

Marcia Boraas

Sarcoma and Lymphoma of the Breast: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Helena Chang and Jane Kakki

Part III. Current Controversies And Research

Breast Conservation Without Radiation Therapy for Carcinoma of the Breast

Gordon F. Schwartz.

Axillary Node Dissection in Breast Cancer

James F. Pingpank Jr. and Ellen R. Sigurdson

Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes: Management and Other Controversies James C. Watson and John P. Hoffman